[ISN] Zeus banking malware hides a crucial file in a photo

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246405/Zeus_banking_malware_hides_a_crucial_file_in_a_photo By Jeremy Kirk IDG News Service February 18, 2014 A newly discovered variant of the notorious Zeus banking trojan is disguising a crucial configuration code in a digital photo, a technique known as steganography. Zeus is one of the most effective tools to steal online banking details, hijacking login details as a person accesses his account and masking secret transfers in the background. The variant, called ZeusVM, downloads a configuration file that contains the domains of banks that the malware is instructed to intervene in during a transaction, wrote Jerome Segura, a senior security researcher with Malwarebytes. He wrote the behavior was first noticed by a French security researcher who writes under the name Xylitol. “The malware was retrieving a JPG image hosted on the same server as were other malware components,” Segura wrote. […]

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